Ali Farka Toure

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Ali Farka Toure
Savane


Album : Savane
Artist : Ali Farka Toure
Release Date : 2006
Label : World Circuit
Number of Discs: 1
Genre : World
Total time : 00:58:37
Total size : 82,5 MB

Individual track details :
1. Erdi
2. Yer Bounda Fara
3. Beto
4. Savane
5. Soya
6. Penda Yoro
7. Machengoidi
8. Ledi Coumbe
9. Hanana
10. Soko
11. Gambari
12. Banga
13. Njarou

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Comments:
Robin Denselow
Friday July 14, 2006
The Guardian
Whenever a final album is released after the death of a great performer, it is often reviewed far more kindly than it might have been had the artist still been alive. There is no such problem with Ali Farka Touré's Savane. There may be other recordings of his that have yet to be released (including sessions with the world's finest kora player, Toumani Diabaté, recorded at the time of their memorable concert together at the Barbican last year), but this is the last solo album by the best-known and best-loved guitarist in Africa, and it's simply outstanding. He described it as "my best album evera" and he was absolutely right. Even compared to the much-praised earlier work by Mali's "godfather of the desert blues", this is a set that's remarkable for its sheer variety and passion, along with the expected but still thrilling guitar work, and some less predictably fine vocals.


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Ali Farka Toure
Niafunke


Artist: Ali Farka Toure
CD title: Naifunke
Release date: 1999
Label: Hannibal
Catalouge No.: HAN571443.2
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: World
Time: 00:52:31
Total size: 72,5 MB

Tracks:
1. Ali's Here
2. Allah Uya
3. Mali Dje
4. Saukare
5. Hilly Yoro
6. Tulumba
7. Instumental
8. ASCO
9. Jangali Famata
10. Howkouna
11. Cousins
12. Pieter Botha

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Malian guitarist Ali Farka Toure's music has always managed global travel with ease and musical grace, shrinking the miles between Western Africa and the Mississippi Delta and seemingly visiting every city in between. Toure has received his share of accolades for blurring the lines between his contemporary/traditional fingerpicking style and "country blues." Toure has routinely collaborated with musicians from other cultures and musical genres, most notably the prolific and internationally influenced Ry Cooder on their widely acclaimed 1994 album Talking Timbuktu. He establishes a firm aesthetic residence on Niafunké, his first and most welcome CD in five years. Niafunké was recorded using a state-of-the-art portable studio in Toure's home village of Niafunke, which clearly lends a decisive authentic flavor and sense of musical place to the disc. Each tune is a lithe and resonant labyrinth of call-and-response patterns: a fingerpicked guitar speaks to a one-stringed njarka fiddle, calabash pummelings weave into those of the conga drums, and a lively small chorus answers Toure's authoritative lead vocals. A couple of the best cuts include "Ali's Here" and "Saukare." A beautifully rendered and intoxicating record.
~ Becky Byrkit, All Music Guide

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Ali Farka Toure


Album : Ali Farka Toure
Artist : Ali Farka Toure
Release Date : 1988
Label : Mango
Number of Discs: 1
Genre : World
Total time : 00:58:02
Total size : 80 MB

Tracks :
1. Timbarma
2. Singya
3. Nawiye
4. Bakoytereye
5. Tchigi Fo
6. Amanddrai
7. Kadi Kadi
8. Yulli
9. Bakoye
10. Amandrai Live

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Amazon.com essential recording
This self-titled debut is an amazing collection, spotlighting the Malian guitarist in his full solo acoustic glory for a beautiful, intimate music that recalls American blues. The beauty of Ali Farka Toure lives in Toure's light, nimble touch on the strings as well as his flexible, reedy voice, which both perfectly complement his gentle, ambling rhythmic style. Tastier highlights include the cantering "Tchigi Fo," with haunting call-and-response sung in Songhai, and the oddly pastoral "Kadi Kadi," a sweet folk song about an encounter with a young woman and her gift of a gold chain. The Arabic praise song "Bakoye" is a comely love song that pulses with Ali's low, bubbling fingerpicking over which his voice soars in a lovely bucolic melody. "Amandrai," in both a studio and live version, is the kind of bluesy tune that's made Toure famous and earned him comparisons to Lightnin' Hopkins and John Lee Hooker. And in later releases, we indeed witness the Malian master collaborating with such Western artists as the Chieftains and Taj Mahal, but this loner of a debut features the guitarist's talents in a quietly understated, purely African light.
--Karen Karleski

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Ali Farka Toure & Ry Cooder
Talking Timbuktu


Album : Talking Timbuktu
Artist : Ali Farka Toure & Ry Cooder
Release Date : 1994
Label : World Circuit
Number of Discs: 1
Genre : World
Total time : 01:00:03
Total size : 82,6 MB

Tracks :
1. Bonde
2. Soukora
3. Gomni
4. Sega
5. Amandrai
6. Lasidan
7. Keito
8. Banga
9. Ai Du
10. Diaraby

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Amazon.com
Talking Timbuktu is a groundbreaking record that vividly illustrates the Africa-Blues connection in real time. Ali Farka Toure, one of Mali's leading singer-guitarists, has a trance-like, bluesy style that, although deeply rooted in Malian tradition, bears astonishing similarity to that of John Lee Hooker or even Canned Heat. It's a mono-chordal vamp, with repetitive song lines cut with shards of blistering solo runs that shimmer like a desert mirage. Toure may be conversant with some blues artists, but it is unlikely that artists like Hooker or Robert Pete Williams ever heard these Malian roots, which makes the connection so uncanny. Ry Cooder, well versed in domestic and world guitar styles, is the perfect counterpoint in these extended songs/jams, his sinewy slide guitar intertwining with his partner's in a super world summit without barriers or borders.
--Derek Rath

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Ali Farka Toure - Radio Mali


Album : Radio Mali
Artist : Ali Farka Toure
Release Date : 1996
Number of Discs: 1
Genre : World
Total time : 01:12:00
Total size : 99,1 MB

Tracks :
1. njarka
2. yer mali gakoyoyo
3. soko
4. bandalabourou
5. machengoidi
6. samarya
7. hani
8. gambari
9. (njarka) gambari
10. biennal
11. arsany
12. amadinin
13. seygalare
14. trei kongo
15. radio mali
16. njarka

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One of the most internationally successful West African musicians of the last decade, guitarist and singer Ali Farka Toure was approaching the age of 50 when his self-titled album came to the attention of the world music audience in the late '80s. Since then, he's toured in North America and Europe and recorded with artists such as Taj Mahal and members of the Chieftains. But it was his Grammy-winning 1994 collaboration with Ry Cooder, "Talking Timbuktu," that won him on a larger scale. Inspired by African rhythmic and musical traditions extending back for generations, this album features materials originally recorded for broadcast on Radio Mali from 1970-78, and loaned by the station's archive. It was these tapes that introduced Toure's unique guitar style to the attention of his countrymen. Once available in France on vinyl, these were among the very first commercial records of Malian music. Available briefly as an import CD, this treasurable collection comes to the U.S. at last with major distribution, and arrives as his latest release on Ryko hits the #1 spot on the CMJ world chart.

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Ali Farka Toure – The Source


Album : The ource
Artist : Ali Farka Toure
Release Date : 1993
Original Release Date : 1991
Label : World Circuit
Number of Discs: 1
Genre : World
Total time : 01:00:29
Total size : 110 MB

Tracks :
1. Goye Kur
2. Inchana Massina
3. Roucky
4. Dofana
5. Karaw
6. Hawa Dolo
7. Cinquante Six
8. I Go Ka
9. Yenna
10. Mahini Me

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Amazon.com essential recording
The source of the Niger River? The source of the blues? Ali Farka Toure is one of the great African guitarists--one who has experimented in the most subtle of ways, seeking inspiration but never creating fusions with other popular music styles. The Source is more roots and less fronds than his Ry Cooder recording Talking Timbuktu; this earlier recording did find him working with Taj Mahal and harmonica player Rory McLeod, but mostly this is a recording with his amazing band, calabash players Amadou Sisse and Hamma Sankare and conga player Oumar Toure, plus a chorus of singers. The emphasis is on the guitar of Toure and the source of the music, the soil of Mali itself.
--Louis Gibson

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Ali Farka Toure – The River


Album : The River
Artist : Ali Farka Toure
Release Date : 1990
Label : Mango
Number of Discs: 1
Genre : World
Total time : 01:07:11
Total size : 77 MB

Tracks :
1. Ai Bine
2. Kenouna
3. Toungere
4. Heygana
5. Jungou
6. Goydiotodam
7. Lobo
8. Tamala
9. Boyrei
10. Tangambara
11. Instrumental

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Amazon.com essential recording
This 1990 recording contains one of the best African blues tunes ever recorded, and a classic Ali Farka Toure moment. As the electric guitar roars in at the opening, punctured by a darting harmonica line, "Heygana" lays out the roots and branches of the blues in its journey from west Africa to the Americas, and more importantly, back again. Sung in the Songhai language, pushed by a vaguely reggae groove and pulled along by a sometimes idiosyncratic percussion line on a calabash, it pretty well epitomizes what Toure is about. The sound is stripped down, with the guitar and voice working a bare minimum groove. The calabash clicks, a thick stringed ngoni adds some punch, and a few tracks feature Toure on the njarka (fiddle). In addition to Rory McLeod's harmonica, there is one piece with The Chieftains' Seane Keane and Kevin Conneff on fiddle and bodhran (Irish goatskin drum), and a marvelous duet with saxophonist Steve Williamson that adds a little sideways R&B. The River is one of Toure's most straightforward recordings made in the decade after the light of his international fame had first shone.
--Louis Gibson

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Ali Farka Toure
The Source


Album : The ource
Artist : Ali Farka Toure
Release Date : 1993
Original Release Date : 1991
Label : World Circuit
Number of Discs: 1
Genre : World
Total time : 01:00:29
Total size : 110 MB

Tracks :
1. Goye Kur
2. Inchana Massina
3. Roucky
4. Dofana
5. Karaw
6. Hawa Dolo
7. Cinquante Six
8. I Go Ka
9. Yenna
10. Mahini Me

@ 256 Kbit/s mp3
*********** essential recording
The source of the Niger River? The source of the blues? Ali Farka Toure is one of the great African guitarists--one who has experimented in the most subtle of ways, seeking inspiration but never creating fusions with other popular music styles. The Source is more roots and less fronds than his Ry Cooder recording Talking Timbuktu; this earlier recording did find him working with Taj Mahal and harmonica player Rory McLeod, but mostly this is a recording with his amazing band, calabash players Amadou Sisse and Hamma Sankare and conga player Oumar Toure, plus a chorus of singers. The emphasis is on the guitar of Toure and the source of the music, the soil of Mali itself.
--Louis Gibson

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http://rapidshare.com/files/318522246/W_Africa_1991_FarkaSource__256.part2.rar